Date/Time
Date(s) - 17 Oct 2015
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Location
Casa Hispánica
Category(ies) No Categories
Material Methodologies in Latin American & Iberian Studies
One-Day Symposium at Columbia University
Saturday, October 17th, 2015
Hosted by: Columbia University’s Department of Latin American & Iberian Cultures and Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Sponsored by: The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at RareBook School
Organized and presented by: Rachel Stein, Columbia University
This conference will bring together a group of advanced graduate students to share their doctoral research and the diverse ways in which they take materiality into account in their studies of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula across disciplines. Each participant will give a brief overview of their research project and then perform a reading of one object from their research corpus —whether a textile, printed book, manuscript, or image—from a material perspective. In the presentations and ensuing discussions, we will reflect in particular on the methodological challenges that the study of these Latin American and Iberian objects entails; on the benefits and drawbacks of a material approach; on the particularities and universalities that our regions of study present when considered within the broader field of “Critical Bibliography”; and on the theoretical implications of the work at hand.
Presentations:
10am-1pm @ Casa Hispánica. 612 W. 116th St. New York, NY
“A Grammar for the Infantas: Lullist Instruments and Pedro de Guevara’s Nueva y Sutil Invención”
Noel Blanco Mourelle, Columbia University.
“The Social Life of Mantas: Native Textiles and the Making of a Colonial Andean Economy”
Santiago Muñoz Arbelaez, Yale University
“Print Reclaimed: Intellectual History from the Printshop Floor in Nineteenth-Century Mexico”
Corinna Zeltsman, Duke University
Rare Book Workshop:
2:30-4:30pm @ Rare Book & Manuscript Library. 6th Floor East Butler Library. 535 W. 114th St. New York, NY.
RSVP to [email protected]; attendance is capped at 25.